Brown v. American Bank of Commerce

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a termination provision requiring ninety-days notice required that both parties continue to abide by terms of contract from date notice given until date termination became effective
• stating that “a contract should be interpreted as a harmonious whole to 4 effectuate the intentions of the parties, and every word, phrase or part of a contract 5 should be given meaning and significance according to its importance in context of 6 the contract”
• interpretation of unambiguous contract must be reasonable and requires ascertaining of intent from language used
• “[I]n construing the contract, reasonable rather than unreasonable interpretations are favored by the law.”
• “[A] contract should be interpreted as a harmonious whol[e] to effectuate the intentions of the parties, and every word, phrase or part of a contract should be given meaning and significance according to its importance in [the] context of the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).